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Although in the last edition of the Sundance Festival received very good reviews, the bloody ‘Mandy’, starring Nicolas Cage, continues to Going Places divide international critics. Simon Abrams and Steven Boone, collaborators of The Hollywood Reporter, have dissected the film directed by Panos Cosmatos and that still has no release date in Spain. Set in 1983 in the desert near the Shadow Mountains, it focuses on the revenge of Red Miller against members of the cult that ended the life of his girlfriend Mandy (Andrea Riseborough).

“Like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, by A Star Is Born Stanley Kubrick, ‘Mandy’ has made me question whether a movie is worth the sensuality of its images. And I had the same feeling when I saw ‘Beyond The Black Rainbow’, also by Panos Cosmatos, in 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival, “says Abrams. “I recognize that the film starring Nicolas Cage has left me with images recorded in my mind: the grotesque grimace of the actor at the end, when he has descended completely to the underworld; John Wick 3 Parabellumthe scene in which a human head burns like wax … But I do not know if it’s superficial pleasures. ” Because, as time has gone by, he recognizes that he has found many flaws: “I like it less and less because it shows the same intolerance that criticizes. The end has no waste … “

Boone is a bit more benevolent and even compare it to ‘Blade Runner’: “Cosmatos clothes Cage with a spectacular visual universe that, I recognize, has also impacted me. I would define it with three words: chainsaw, porn and Ronald Reagan. “